PERFORMANCE TRAINING

Our full-time performance coaches provide professionallevel training to St. John’s athletes. These innovative, evidence-based strength and conditioning programs are customized by sport to give each athlete the tools they need to take their performance to the next level. St. John’s offers two performance training classes during the academic year that are open to any interested student. In addition, each athletic team receives sport-specific training year-round from the performance coaches.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE

• STRENGTH TRAINING: Comprehensive training programs designed to target the entire body using multi-joint movements (including Olympic training). Athletes train in the Smith

Weight Room, which houses cutting-edge weight and resistance training equipment.

• CARDIOVASCULAR TRAINING: Interval training that incorporates stationary bikes, jump ropes, Woodway treadmill, stadium runs, sleds, prowlers, and drills on the multi-purpose turf field.

• MOVEMENT TRAINING: Resistance training, plyometrics, and mobility and flexibility exercises.

• SPEED AND AGILITY TRAINING: Linear and multidirectional drills designed to teach athletes to move more effectively.

• PREHABILITATION TRAINING: Sport-specific training to correct imbalances and weaknesses in the body that could lead to injury.

• RECOVERY TRAINING: Athletes receive nutrition plans and learn myofascial release techniques designed to return their body to a normal state of mental and physical health in order to prepare them for the next practice or competition.